Date: 30 April 2024 Location: Menkragnoti Indigenous Area, Brazil Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 30.8 million hectares of land in Brazil were
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Panama City, 3 March 2025. Last Friday, the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre concluded its second online training, focused on Remote Sensing for Disaster Risk Reduction and Forest Fire Preparedness. Over the course of five days, more than 270 people from over
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Date: 19 July 2024 Location: Panama City, Panama Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, processed by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre Description: Welcome to the first edition of the Image of the Week brought to you by the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre! In this
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From 10 to 13 February 2025, the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre hosted a series of online stakeholder workshops, bringing together over 50 participants from 25 entities across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, including representatives from governments, universities, international organisations,
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The CopernicusLAC Panama Centre has announced the successful completion of the development phase of Use Case 6 on “Wildfires: Mapping events, danger and recovery”. This milestone has resulted in the creation of three open-source services designed to support comprehensive wildfire
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Among the activities of the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre is the development of the Financial Value Mapping pilot service, which will provide Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a robust tool for estimating the economic value of territories. It will
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The CopernicusLAC Panama Centre will host its next online training from 24-28 February 2025. The training will consist of two modules covering the topics “Applications of remote sensing for disaster risk reduction” and “Remote sensing for forest fire preparedness”. The
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2024 has been a year of growth, collaboration, and significant achievements for the CopernicusLAC Panama Centre. From expanding our reach and impact in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region to advancing key projects, we have made great strides in
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Entities in the Caribbean – a region frequently tested by hurricanes, floods, and other disasters and extreme weather events – continue to explore innovative strategies to strengthen the region’s disaster preparedness and resilience. From 2 to 6 December 2024, this
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The Launch of Sentinel-1C The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite successfully launched from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 5 December 2024. As the only radar satellite mission delivering data on free and fully open basis, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission plays
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